Farewell Diagnosis, udner contract with Bloomsbury, is tentatively scheduled for release in February 2026.

Farewell Diagnosis challenges the idea that clinical or self-diagnosis reveals a singular truth. Blending psychoanalysis, feminist theory, and neurodiversity, Ben invites readers to hold diagnostic categories lightly — as openings, not conclusions.

Farewell Diagnosis: Diffracting Autism, Psychoanalysis, and Assessment offers a reimagining of diagnostic practice. Rather than treating diagnosis — clinical or self — as a discovery of truth, Ben proposes that each diagnostic act is an agential cut: a situated gesture that reveals some meanings while obscuring others. Drawing on psychoanalysis, feminist science studies, and lived experience, the book approaches autism and assessment not as problems to be solved, but as entangled processes to be lived with. It engages the tensions between pathologizing logics and affirming frameworks, between open-ended listening and institutional constraint. Ben asks: what comes after diagnosis — not only in systems of care, but in the patient’s internal world? With sensitivity and intellectual rigor, Farewell Diagnosis explores what becomes possible when we suspend the need for diagnostic certainty and attend instead to the sticky, dynamic, and relational terrain of meaning. This is a book for clinicians, assessors, neurodivergent readers, and anyone seeking more spacious ways to think with — rather than through — diagnosis.